Teleportation, long a science fiction staple and familiar to anyone who’s ever watched a Star Trek episode, in now real—at least for kisses. The Kissenger, a kiss messenger, transmits the physical elements of a kiss wirelessly from kisser to kissee. The idea comes from Hooman Samani, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Keio-NUS CUTE Center—a collaborative lab between the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Keio University of Japan. The electronics look suspiciously simple to me. Clearly, there are no Heisenberg Uncertainty Compensators or pattern buffers in the Kissenger’s current design, but then it’s only a prototype.

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Steve Leibson has appeared on television with Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Mr. Spock), however he's not a TV star (although he's always open to offers). He is the Cadence EDA360 Evangelist and a Marketing Director at Cadence Design Systems, the leading EDA vendor for system and chip-level design tools, design IP and IP design platforms, and verification IP. Steve’s written some of the key books about IP-based SOC design including “Designing SOCs with Configured Cores,” published in 2006 and “Engineering the Complex SOC,” co-authored with Dr. Chris Rowen and published in 2004. An experienced design engineer, Steve has been evangelizing advanced, IP-centric SOC design since 2001.